Pierre Pica#
Membership Number: | 4740 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
Elected: | 2018 |
Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Homepage(s): | http://www.pierrepica.com |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 - present Visiting Professor, Instituto do cérebro, Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Norte, (Natal, Brazil)
- 2012 - present Associate Researcher, Department of linguistics, (Leiden University, Netherlands)
- 1974 - 2016 Research Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, (Paris, France)
- 1998 - 2000 Visiting Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, (Rio, Brazil)
- 1996 Visiting Professor, National University of Brasilia, (Brasilia, Brazil)
- 1990 - 1994 Associate Researcher, University of Québec in Montréal, (Montréal, Canada)
- 1985 - 1987 Visiting Scholar, Department of Linguistics & Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (Cambridge Mass
- USA)
Fields of Scholarship
- Core-knowledge
- Geometry
- Syntax
- Mundurucu
- Number
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Prix du magazine La Recherche, Section of Neurosciences, (Paris, France)
- 2004 Prix Découvertes, Ministère de la Recherche, (Paris, France)
- 1987 Sloan Foundation Fellow, Center for Cognitive Science, (Cambridge Mass, USA)
- 1984 Fyssen Foundation, Research Fellow, Fyssen Foundation, (Paris, France)
- 1980 Silver Medal, Tietgen Foundation, (Copenhagen, Denmark)